Attraction to Challenges

A big holdup on spiritual process is the attraction to the challenges in material existence. It is the need to be in the struggle for existence, the effort to thwart the features of material existence which are inconvenient.

Mush time is spend rushing up to the material nature and inventing this or that gadget or coping-means to upend its operations which are not to our liking. But is such time well spent? Is there any spiritual realization to be derived from it?

Infancy, childhood and the juvenile phase are fill with missing features which later we gain in the adult years. As adults we gain privileges which were not accessible before. Then there is a rush to be all one can be, and to realize that the sky even is not the limit of what we can aspire for, fight for and accomplish. But will this enthusiasm yield spiritual realization?

Recently I was with a relative of mine who ran an astral location as if it was a combat zone. This person has a physical body and is very active and enterprising on the physical side. Both in the physical and astral worlds, this person acts as a big Whig, and is ever preoccupied directing others, fulfilling colossal desires. Is this the way?